The word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious appears, for example, in the Oxford English dictionary. So their editors believe it's sufficiently well used to qualify as a real word. It's the chemical name of Titin or connectin , a giant protein "that functions as a molecular spring which is responsible for the passive elasticity of muscle. Practice the pronunciation until you can say the word without hesitations.
Eunoia, at six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels. Seven letter words with this property include adoulie, douleia, eucosia, eulogia, eunomia, eutopia, miaoued, moineau, sequoia, and suoidea. The scientific name iouea is a genus of Cretaceous fossil sponges. The two longest words in the Bible have 18 letters each.
Major dictionaries The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.
The definition of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica dust. Nutella , according to the manufacturer Ferrero, is pronounced "New-tell-uh.
Titin is a huge, 4. Extending from its N-terminus anchored in the Z-disc to its C-terminus bound to thick filaments in the M-band, titin is largely responsible for the passive stiffness of the myocardium exhibited during diastolic filling. Then listen to the sound recording above taking particular notice of how the "ll" is pronounced. Titin is a multi-domain structure that which is found to be composed of two types of domains similar to immunoglobulin Ig and fibronectin.
There are approximately Ig and fibronectin domains present in titin , with also kinase domains close to the carboxyl terminus. Don't pronounce that first R, and also make sure you put the schwa in the last syllable.
Some people will want to say 'shire', but just like the state 'New Hampshire', -shire, -shire, it's a schwa in that last syllable. If you're looking for words that contain neither vowel sounds nor the letters a, e, i, o, u, or y, you need to look no further than shh, psst, and mm-hmm. Why is the name for titin so long? Category: healthy living nutrition. The word is , letters long. It's actually the name of a giant protein called Titin.
Proteins are usually named by mashing-up the names of the chemicals making them. And since Titin is the largest protein ever discovered, its name had to be equally as large.
What is the longest name? By virtue of having one more letter than antidisestablishmentarianism , this is the longest non-technical English word. A mash-up of five Latin roots , it refers to the act of describing something as having little or no value. While it made the cut in the Oxford English Dictionary , Merriam-Webster volumes refuse to recognize it, chalking up its existence to little more than linguistic ephemera.
At 17 characters, this is the longest accepted isogram , a word in which every letter is used only once, and refers to the underlying dermal matrix that determines the pattern formed by the whorls, arches, and ridges of our fingerprints. A type of soil tiller, the longest non-coined palindromic word included in an English dictionary tallies nine letters. Detartrated , 11 letters, appears in some chemical glossaries, but is generally considered too arcane to qualify.
The longest words to appear in a major dictionary comprised entirely of either vowels or consonants. A Cwtch, or crwth, is from the Welsh word for a hiding place.
Euouae , a medieval musical term, is technically a mnemonic, but has been accepted as a word in itself. BY Kevin Kampwirth.
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